The volcanic eruption that ravaged Pompeii in year 79 is one of the most famous in history. It is known how its victims died, but how did they live? A new insight into the lives of the people who lived in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius before its cataclysmic eruption.

The rebellious Thracian Spartacus, born and raised a slave, is sold to Gladiator trainer Batiatus. A...

Two thousand years ago, at the dawn of the first century, the ancient world was ruled by Rome. Throu...

In the beginning was sex. To the ancient cultures, sexuality, love and sex were inextricably connect...

In 26 AD, Judah Ben-Hur, a Jew in ancient Judea, opposes the occupying Roman empire. Falsely accuse...

It's a condition known as "hypertrichosis" or "Ambras Syndrome," but in the 1500s it would transform...

A 17th-century nun becomes entangled in a forbidden lesbian affair with a novice. But it is Benedett...

Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the...

At the turn of the sixteenth century, Michelangelo (Mark Frankel), Raphael (Andrea Prodan), and Leon...

The Kush Empire was an ancient superpower that dominated the Nile Valley and rivaled the Egyptians, ...

In 1872, in the cave of Cavillon in Monaco, archaeologist Émile Rivière (1835-1922) unearthed an app...

The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth century Italy, as seen through the eyes of two childh...

After the World War I, Mussolini's perspective on life is severely altered; once a willful socialist...

More than 2.000 years ago, Narbonne in today's Département Aude was the capital of a huge Roman prov...

William Friedkin attends an exorcism with Father Gabriele Amorth, as he treats an Italian woman name...

The story is set at the beginning of the 20th century in Sicily. Salvatore, a very poor farmer, and ...

The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven wit...

When Patrizia Reggiani, an outsider from humble beginnings, marries into the Gucci family, her unbri...

A falsely accused nobleman survives years of slavery to take vengeance on his best friend who betray...

Dr. Mark Fairchild, world-renowned archaeologist, traces the hidden years of Saint Paul's life in th...